Nobel Prize in Physics

The American Institute of Physics is set to cover the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, highlighting the research and researchers recognized by the Nobel Committee. Interest is already building around which breakthroughs in physics will be honored this year.

Anniversaries are being marked for Enrico Fermi, born 125 years ago, the Italian-American physicist behind the world's first nuclear reactor and a key figure in developing quantum theory and nuclear physics. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 and lent his name to the famous Fermi paradox about alien life.